Looky, looky

Here is my new collar I made this morning. It feels so cool on. I am sure Master will be pleased. He has been all up in my grill, making me wear my new wrist cuffs and old pink collar all the time I am at home. I can't wait to hear him say, "Do you have on your collar?", in that 'I am not looking for an answer, bitch, just stfu and get it on NOW voice. And when he grabs it, I think I am going to melt.

You don't have any idea how hard it was hard it was to get a shot of this collar on my neck without getting too much of the turkey neck thing going on. I had to lift my chin and stretch out my arm and look at the image on the computer screen.
Sorry about my sorry assed photography skillz. This is a little out of focus. The main band is 1" wide with a series of 1/2" slots and a half inch band threaded back and forth, three d-rings and lots of shiny rivets.
Wrist cuff and collar. I made ankle cuffs too just like the wrist cuffs but just a hair bit wider than the wrist cuffs. Lots'ofun. Now to get him to use them to fasten me down.

Okay enough hobbies...

What else, work was a barely getting our feet wet. We only had the kids for a day and a half and attendance was down. It was a cake walk. Next week will feel more real.

Last weekend, Master had one of those post fifty experiences when the little soldier failed to salute. Its the first time the ED has raised its ugly head... no amend that... nothing was raised... in nearly a year. Master was not too disturbed, we had some good laughs as I did every magic trick I knew and I finally looked up at him my mouth full with this "what the fuck, chuck" expression and he started to laugh and I started to giggle and then sucked hard and crossed my eyes at the same time.

We decided to put the whole thing on hold for a day and see how things worked later. And the next morning, it was still a reluctant puppy but finally with due diligence on my part we managed to wake him up. (Master refers to his man stuff as "will-he-won't-he" at these particular times.)

So this morning as he grabbed me and pinned me up against the wall and gave me some endless, deep, soft, warm good bye kisses before going to work, old "will-he-won't-he" started doing a definite will! will! WILL!!!!! I pushed back and gave him a smoking, "Oh please, please be late for work" look. But Master decided to go to work... but he told me to read lots of sexy stuff, to write something that makes me hot and to refrain from any masturbation.

I think I am at great risk of having some expectations when he arrives home. I must remember to be ready but not to let my ideas of what might happen get in the way of me enjoying what will happen.

Craft Project: Making leather bondage cuffs

A month or two ago I went to an interesting leather working class put on by the PLA. I think the coolest thing I learned was you don't need a ton of expensive equipment to get started and that it was not all that expensive to make the cool looking stuff. So when Master ordered me to get out and do something, ordering me to look at leather stuff, I went to Tandy Leather and walked into the most delicious leather scented place. The staff were just the right mix of leave me alone to wander and touch and sniff and think... but as soon as I asked something they were knowledgeable, quick and wonderfully nice. I bought a piece of split leather, "rough on both sides"... well not rough, soft and suede really, black... about 2.5'x4'... for less than $30... that is enough to make a dozen cuffs and prolly other stuff too.

I had looked at a lot of different styles of cuffs on the internet and chose to make some that have a wide strap with two smaller straps that weave back and forth to anchor the d-rings and put the buckles on. I sat down and made a pattern out of paper to get an idea of exactly how wide I wanted the cuffs to be and how wide the straps should be.

Mine are 2.5" wide and about 8.5" long. This does leave me with about an inch overlap to pad where the buckles are. You should make your own pattern and custom size your own cuffs. (Master says I am big boned... and here all the time I thought I was a dainty little girl.)

I use a one sided razorblade and a metal ruler on a cutting board. It cuts just like butter. I did mess up the first couple but that gave me scraps to practice on. (Be careful, leather is sort of stretchy. Take your time, move your hand on the ruler to keep even pressure next to the razor blade... oh and make sure the sharp side of the razor blade is down. It makes you feel really stupid to try it the other way. Take my word for it.) Anyway... you will get your rectangle and two straps (make the straps about 3" longer than the strap is long.

Because my base rectangle is 2.5" wide it is really easy to score it on the back side and divide it into five equal .5" sections and then I found the middle... 4.25 and that is where the d-ring would go. I want to make slots for the straps to weave back forth so I figured out that I want to slots (one on either side of the d-ring about .5"... so the middle two slots end up a total of 1" apart. Then the straps need to weave back up to the top again and I decided to make that 1.5" further down... again on either side.


Cutting the slots for the straps is a bit nit-picky. You can buy a punch that does it perfectly every time... just put it on the leather and hit it with a mallet... but I was reluctant to invest a lot of money in tools I am still not sure that I will end up using a lot... so the cheapo way is to take your hole punch... (the one indispensable piece of equipment I did end up purchasing... not too expensive... less than $20... I rationalized it because of all the weight I have lost I need to alter a few belts.) ...anyway, take the hole punch, choose the size of hole to match the thickness of your leather and punch a hole at either end of you .5" wide mark and then carefully take your razor blade and cut the narrow piece out between the punched holes.

If you are at all like me, the resulting slots will not be perfectly regular but once the straps are through it looks just fine.




Next putting the buckles on the straps. I found it easier to do this before I tried to thread then through. (Tandy has a bewildering assortment of buckles and cool stuff, you can spend all day deciding exactly which ones you like best.) Look close at your buckle... I am sure advanced leather workers even know what all the parts are named... but I just call the little middle thing that goes through the belt hole the "tongue" probably wrong but what do I know... all I know is I am having fun. Be sure to get the front in on the front end... I sluffer from a sight clase of dysexia... and get things turned around very easily... so I actually went and got a belt and looked at it and then played around with the buckles a bit to make sure I wasn't getting it back-assward.

The tongue needs to be able to move freely so the hole you make for it to fit through is not really a hole... it is a slot about half and inch long. I put it in about an inch from the end of the strap (I gave myself an inch and a half originally so I would have extra if I needed but I ended up trimming .5 inches off.) Cut a slot, using the same technique I described earlier... maybe choose a hole size a little wider... look at the buckle you chose... compare it to the hole on the punch. Thread it through... look at it... if it looks right, you are ready to rivet!

You use a rivet to hold the buckle on. I was a bit leery about rivets. I thought they would be hard to do. I took some of my scraps and practiced and found out they are EASY PEASY... come in all kinds of cool sizes and decorations. You will need a tool... basically a little concave base and a little shaft with a concave tip to tap on... I used double cap rivets (with pretty stars on them). The bottom part of the rivet has a shaft and the top of the rivet is the cap... the length of the shaft should be just long enough to stick up out of your leather about 1/8 of an inch... any longer and it will be too long, the whole thing with shift and bend and not line up right. Take your punch... choose the hole that will just fit the shaft of the base and punch a hole through both layers at once... push the base through the hole... the cap sort of snaps on and stays while you position it over the little round base anvil thing. Take the punch and position it over the cap and tap, tap, tap. This is where a nice sturdy work surface is invaluable.

Now that you have buckles on the end of both your straps, thread them through the slots in your bigger rectangle... be sure to remember to put the d-rings on... that is why we are making these suckers, right??? ...so Masterly types can fasten us down??? Though I must say they are very much a fashion statement as well.


Next I put rivets through both the big rectangle and the straps... measuring halfway between where the two 1.5" apart slots. This looks cool and I think will help anchor the strap to the main wider strap.

Last I put them on, thread the straps through the buckles and looked carefully to decide where the holes should be for just the right amount of tightness... I like them tight... so tight it is hard to twist them around on my wrist...

punch the holes and put them back on and rush down and show Master...

Cool, huh?








Next I am going to make ankle cuffs and then a play collar to match.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Here is how to make a simple fun little string flogger. It is not the slightest bit extreme. Master has to put a lot of oomph into it to make it bite at all. I made one like this almost two years ago when Master and I first began to experiment with hurting me. It was a great beginner and yet... to this day, Master will use these on me, if only to change up the sensations as we play.

They also make awesome pussy floggers... mmm... awesome.

What you will need:

Some mason's twine... it comes in all kinda bright colors. I guess mason's need to be able to see it easily, or maybe they just love pretty colors like me.
A piece of 1/2 inch dowel... about 5 or 6 inches long... depends upon how long you like your handles and how big your hand (or your Master's hand is).

And some tape... I tried this new wrapping tape but after using it, it smelled funny. I think I prefer electrical tape and you can find nice colors of electrical tape if you look. And I do like pretty colors.

Tools:

Something about two feet long to wrap the string around and around. I have a Formica desk top but a cutting board, or any kind of board will do... even a piece of cardboard, scissors, and scotch tape.

You will get something like this... though I chose some orange string this time. This is an old one that has seen a lot of use. You can see how the ends of the string have frayed out. It is now wonderfully soft and sends endless warm tingly chills over me when Master trails it over my skin.










On this one, Master took the time to tie a knot in the end of each string. It stings more.








Okay... take your board and wrap the string around and around... count fifty times... that will make a hundred string flogger... and if your board is two feet long... that uses up about 200 feet of your string. Leaving you 300 left of your 500 foot spool to make another one. Don't know about you... but Master has been known to dual wield.







I use a little scotch tape to anchor the ends and then I wrap around the bundle in a couple of places to keep it from falling all apart after I slide it off the side.

Now you have a loop... I carefully put my piece of dowel in one end and try to arrange the strings evenly around it and anchor them with some more scotch tape. The scotch tape gives you the freedom to fuss around with it.




And once you are satisfied, take your electrical tape or tool handle wrap and wrap it around and around spiraling up and then back down, making sure that the entire length of the dowel is covered.







You can give it a haircut and trim the ends all even if you have the urge to make everything pretty and perfect looking.






And when you are all done... you have >>>>>>
It is fun, cheap to make, not very intimidating to play with for beginners. It also is fun to hold in your hand, run your fingers through. It is sensual and pretty. I know when I made our first one, Master never put it down.



Now that you have the basic idea of how to get started with making floggers, you can experiment with different handle lengths, different types of string and other stringy stuff... I have used leather shoe laces. I have been thinking about surgical tubing?



Now for a piece of advice... Do NOT make something like this. It is some dense plastic jump rope that someone was throwing away at the school. It is beyond mean or nasty... it makes marks long before it even starts to really hurt... and take my word for it... it really REALLY hurts. For the life of me... I cannot figure out why I am so attracted to things like this, things that literally can kill me. Master already looked at the stuff and declared it too dangerous... and look I could not resist doing it anyway.